Plant-based diets and prevention of cardiovascular disease

Plant-Based Diets and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiologic Evidence... 

PLANT-BASED DIETS AND PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE... 

Another step in the right direction, which has also been discussed earlier, is the Cornell-Oxford-China Study, or The China Project, which is directed at finding connections between diet and disease, with the inference that a plant-based diet is preventive. An estimate noted is that between 80 to 90% of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other degenerative illnesses can be offset until old age, with the qualifier that the normal processes of aging are not so normal after all. 

Chapter 9 provides some of the background evidence suggesting a role for phytochemicals in health promotion and disease prevraition. In this chapter Hu reviews and summarizes epidemiological research on plant-based foods and dietary patterns and concludes that there is substantial evidence that healthy plant-based diets—those with adequate omega-3 fatty adds, that arc rich in unsaturated fats, whole grains, fraits and vegetables—can, and should play an important part in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases. ... 

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